HIP I-V measurement tool

Tool to help I-V measurements with a given setup.

Currently designed for:

Keithley 2410 as voltage source, and
Keithley 6487 for current measurement.

Dependencies

NI-488.2 OR (preferably) Linux GPIB driver;
gcc-c++ version ≥ 4.8 to build everything;
CMake version ≥ 2.8 for the automatic generation of makefiles (see the installation part);
python-devel for the parsing of configuration files.

Optionally:

Doxygen for the generation of the documentation (try make doc_doxygen and point your browser to file:///path/to/your/ivutils/folder/doc/html/index.html)

Installation

cd to your cloned repository,
mkdir build && cd build to define the location of the library and tests,
cmake .. to generate a personalised Makefile for your system,
make to build the .so library. You may link it against several tests (see the test/ directory).

Usage

Loading the drivers [linux-gpib + NI GPIB-USB-HS adapter]

Please note that these operations might need to be performed at every kernel upgrade.

(Re-)compile the linux-gpib-kernel part of the Linux GPIB package you retrieved from here:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Load the kernel module for e.g. a NI USB bridge.

modprobe ni_usb_gpib

The driver should be selected through the gpib.conf configuration file (usually in /usr/local/etc/gpib.conf):

locate the interface block
edit the board_type to ni_usb_b
load the configuration:

gpib_configure

SLC6 instructions

Prior to any cmake procedure, ensure that you have a reasonably recent gcc version (i.e. ≥ 4.8.X). On SLC6, you may pick it up through the following procedure:

first time setup (as root user):

wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/slc6-devtoolset.repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/devtoolset/slc6-devtoolset.repo
yum install devtoolset-2

environment enabling (at each login, for the user/terminal in charge):
```
scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
```

Note: if you ran any cmake|make command listed above before this procedure, you need to clean the cmake cache. Usually, this can be done through (in your build/ directory!):

rm -rf CMake*